Dev wrote:
> I have a field in my database table of type OID which is suppose to be
> used to store binary data. I plan on using the setBlob and getBlob
> methods for storing and retrieving entries from the table. Is that the
> right way to proceed? If I delete a row in that table , will it delete
> the binary data as well from the database server?
>
>
The JDBC driver should take care of creating and deleting the underlying
LO. However, with PG, the deleted LO isn't physically removed until you
run contrib/vacuumlo. We include vacuumlo in our daily db maintenance
routines (pg_dump, vacuum, analyze, vacuumlo).
David